In the UK, “wind and solar have generated more electricity than fossil fuels for a record 15 months in a row.

[ligasser@social.epfl.ch]

@bascule The one he asked to build a wall in a protected area to protect about rising sea because of "climate change"?

[crystal_fish_caves@mstdn.party]

@bascule
yeah but what about all the dead birds?

oh wait trump said that. Gots to be BS. NM.

[ef@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@bascule just need bills to reflect the actual cost and not that of gas now.

[wheresmywater@mastodon.world]

@bascule oh no another solar and wind spill. Environment is still ok.

[sloanlance@mastodon.social]

@bascule
Imagine people surprised by this. They're fools!

Sure, some locations where winter is very cold, the days get shorter, but the sun can be BRILLIANT in that weather, too. I know because I live in Michigan & sunny winter days can be bright enough to hurt my eyes. Solar power generates easily those days.

What about places where the sun doesn't rise for days? Large batteries were charged on the sunny days & they're supplemented by wind power!

[sloanlance@mastodon.social]

@Crystal_Fish_Caves @bascule
Oh. That was me. Sorry. I killed the birds.

I was _HUNGRY_!

[tootbrute@fedi.arkadi.one]

@bascule so angry at Taiwan and their energy policy, we have way more sun than the uk why don't we have better solar

[liquidlamp@hachyderm.io]

@vonKordke @bascule you absolute can by adding batteries and more high voltage lines to interconnect more grids and minimize the affect of variability at a local level. They build industrial solar where its very bright, and they build wind turbines where its nearly perpetually windy. As long as those sources are connected to more grids, we are fine.

For other sources, nuclear can be fine but very slow to build so it should be a backup option and not a primary one. Hydro is a great baseload right now, but more dams is tricky. Geothermal looks better than nuclear, if nascent, and natgas generators can be converted to run on green hydrogen made with solar/wind that would otherwise be load shedding.

Mix all of the generation of the above with an equally important change in consumption: heat pumps for HVAC and hot water, induction cooktops, and electric vehicles, and you can satisfy all energy needs with much, much less overall electrical generation than the mass total of electrical/fossil we use now.

All it takes is building things that we can build today.

[tootbrute@fedi.arkadi.one]

@bascule only 5% of Taiwan's total energy is from solar as of 2024. omg. pathetic.

Solar power contributes 15.29 TWh of generation to the Taiwanese grid, accounting for 5.2% of total electric power generation as of 2024
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Taiwan

#taiwan

[bascule@mas.to]

@vonKordke it’s not going to be too long before solar completely eclipses everything else. Total solar capacity follows a Moore’s Law-like exponential trajectory where it 10Xes every 10 years.

About 600GW of new solar was deployed in 2025 which produced 600TWh of energy.

Meanwhile nuclear capacity has increased about 70GW since 2000, or about 2.7GW per year on average. Not gonna cut it.

[bascule@mas.to]

@vonKordke @liquidlamp wrong

https://mas.to/@bascule/116534185258084701

[bascule@mas.to]

Why do nukebros reply guy to every mention of a renewable milestone with “needs more nuclear”. No it does not. Nuclear power has a pathetic track record.

Nuclear power has added an average of < 3GW capacity per year for the past quarter century, globally.

In 2025 alone the world deployed approximately 600GW in new solar generation capacity that generated 600TWh of additional energy.

Solar capacity 10Xes every 10 years.

#renewableenergy